Never been serious about body-building, til now ;)

#142

Oh I didn’t know weighted vests were so light! I am pretty much against using weights (I have more than enough extra fat, thank you…) but if I just have a backpack, that is heavier… Often much heavier and there is some elevation… I really dislike that though but it’s important to be able to do that in need.

I really need to resume my workouts. At some point they just disappeared again, had some reason to stop for 1-2 days and… IDK. Need some core exercises too, my back pain is more serious now, it was always my weak point, even at 20 but it’s more frequent now and the last 2 weeks were worse than normal. I can’t let it continue like this!

(Denise) #143

I think mostly about “losing nutrients and muscle” especially when aging. I’m 73, and glad I woke up when I did. I have a minimal amount of bone-loss comparatively speaking, and Keto is the best I’ve ever eaten. I know I can’t stop the aging process, but I have more muscle now than I had 7 years ago.

The way I eat is way more important to me than the exercise, and I try to remember to share that with folks just starting out on Keto. I think it was at least a couple of months before I got “physical” with some real, regular exercise. That had to do with the knowledge I’d gained here, and other places, on losing lean, muscle-mass. I had to make sure it was fat I was burning, not lean muscle.

I guess looking ahead, realistically, the pros and cons of what I do today that might “improve” my life, and what might make it worse. I suppose someone could call me a “pleasure seeker” but not just “instant gratification” seeker. I want something that can last as long as possible.

(Denise) #144

I invite all ages to this discussion of course :nerd_face:

I’m watching a video on Weighted Vests “specifically” for Seniors. I’m glad to see that it suggests “already” being into some type of exercise. For me it’s Walking Uphill. Not super strenuous, easy does it. It’s not real hiking as I live in “hill’y” residential area, so all pavement.

I am looking at the video to show me more than I “think” I know to do. I am thinking of posture first and foremost. Also, balance of weight, and where the weight should be situated, front, back etc.

I haven’t watched all of this vid, but will put it in here, and encourage anyone to share their personal knowledge of using a Weight vest, or new folks with questions on using weighted-vests.

Here’s my first video: https://youtu.be/RqR8q4x99t8

#145

I call that a true hedonist! Seeking joy that damages our quality of life later isn’t really hedonistic to me.

Apparently I haven’t written about it last time but I have watched quite a few videos about strength training is pretty important for a healthy brain and body in general when one is older! Wow, it does more good than what I have thought…

(Denise) #146

I imagine people have their own “definitions” pretty much, for everything anymore. It’s a pleasure for me to get up feeling good, with my little routines, and mostly my pleasure comes from being able to take care of myself as I am independent, maybe to a fault, but I plan to stay that way as long as I can.

I think it’s kind of sad that every get-together has to have food and drink at it’s center. Believe me I’m no party-poop, I just can have more fun when I eat right and drink mostly water, no sugary drinks except my stevia in my morning decaf “latte” I’ll call it, and my afternoon, at times, sparkling La Croix.

I can also see people getting hooked on Stevia, monkfruit so I don’t push it, it is an option for a “special” treat.

(B Creighton) #147

Good to see you Denise. I am glad nothing happened to you… you just kinda disappeared. I too have been working on building muscle this year to good success… while losing fat. Congratulations on your success!

(Denise) #148

Good to see you as well! I spend a lot of time offline lately, I do have a habit of disappearing:smile:
Good for you on working at the muscle and congrats on the success. I’d like the shred this belly-fat, I guess it’s ultimately the Visceral Fat my body loves to hang onto.

I’m hoping I can do just a bit of a deficit my food intake as I honestly, now, only do walk 3 times of week, and that’s only weather permitting. I do the stairwells here, they are all nicely carpeted, and a few degrees warmer but not actually heated. Next best thing to outdoors.

I was sick with flu, in 3rd week of it but I was down the first 2 weeks, not bedridden but temperature, body aches. Guess according to the test they ran I had Influenza A. I’m not surprised, in a way, we have a lot of sick folks here, but I hadn’t had flu for 30 years. Never got flu-shots but I will after this bug.

It was milder than anyone else’s I’ve heard of so I’m guessing, thanks to keto, my immune system is built up pretty good.

I love the new weight vest, I bought one months ago, maybe a whole year or so ago. It weighed a ton, to me, can’t remember the weight, but it didn’t have a way to remove weights, or, it’s bottom weight was to much for me to literally wear, lol!! I couldn’t hardly carry it in when I had Amazon deliver it:rofl: Live and learn :slight_smile:

(Denise) #149

I love the vest I got, and I even added on a pound of weight yesterday as I did so well with just 4 lbs. I really hope this helps with the Visceral fat that seems to linger. Can’t figure out the whole keto thing since I am not eating over 10-20 carbs, I am strengthening muscles but the Visceral belly fat are not going, not even an inch around my waist.

Maybe someone will chime in here, and let me know if you ever lost that fat? At 73 I am most concerned about my organs, if anyone else can relate to this I’d appreciate it.

(Denise) #150

That weight vest “reply” is old, but I never posted it here so decided to go ahead. But, the latest news is, I still love the vest, but I’ve added some dumbell training, upper body stuff. For my lower body, I am doing squats using Swiss Ball, and I think they are called, reverse lunges.

Both of those things I’ve added, have shockingly improved my muscles!! In fact, I’m not sure how much of it is because of my age, or is it actually adding the weights.

The ones that made me so sore were the squats and lunges!! I mean sore in a safe, good way, but took an extra day to recover. Now little soreness, and I can do every other day. Upper body has some soreness, but those are every other day in between legs.

Walking/hiking never made my muscles as sore as these squats/lunges. Now I feel I’m actually building some muscle. Here’s a list of what I am doing so far:

Using just 2 of the 5 lb weights for upper body/arms -

3 sets, 12 reps Dumbell Press lying on bench, pushing up
3 sets, 12 reps Resistance Bands 25 lb (supposedly) Green Band, rows I think they’re called
3 sets, 12 reps Triceps using bench
3 sets, 12 reps Bicep Curls
3 sets, 12 reps Lat Pull-downs, Green Band @ 25 lbs

I mixed in the bands because I wanted to do each arm muscle(s) I used, in two different ways. So now I feel like I am actually doing weights. I have some 10 & 20 lb weights, if I ever get as strong as I think I might. No hurry though, listening to my body :wink: Denise

That first day I did the squats/lunges, I did following up my resting the next. And on the third day, I was really sore, so what I did was do my walk for 30 minutes, and Epsom salt bath, but I was ready to go again on 4th day after. Forgot to mention, I started my upper body weights as well on 3rd day after squats and lunges :wink:

(Doug) #151

Denise :clap: that’s really admirable. Eventually, if we don’t do things, we won’t be able to do them (which is really a heck of a deal… :slightly_frowning_face:) I’m increasingly conscious of such.

(Denise) #152

That is something I think a lot about, so I am with you, I want to remain independent as long as I can. That definitely means my brain-exercise too.

Getting back into this was mostly because I had flu, after maybe 30 years of not even a cold. I was sick, moping around for 2 weeks, finally went to doc and got Tamiflu, which I think didn’t do much if anything. Just down, had to order in groceries even from Walmart. Seems if I get scared enough, I do what I need to do :wink: Denise